Global Patent Index - EP 2691566 A4

EP 2691566 A4 20150401 - DIAGNOSTIC METHOD FOR A CLOTHES TREATING APPARATUS

Title (en)

DIAGNOSTIC METHOD FOR A CLOTHES TREATING APPARATUS

Title (de)

DIAGNOSEVERFAHREN FÜR EINE VORRICHTUNG ZUM BEHANDELN VON BEKLEIDUNGSSTÜCKEN

Title (fr)

PROCÉDÉ DE DIAGNOSTIC DESTINÉ À UN APPAREIL DE TRAITEMENT DE VÊTEMENTS

Publication

EP 2691566 A4 20150401 (EN)

Application

EP 12764584 A 20120328

Priority

  • KR 20110028392 A 20110329
  • KR 2012002264 W 20120328

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO2012134158A2] The present invention relates to a diagnostic method for a clothes treating apparatus, and according to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a diagnostic method of a clothes treating apparatus having a compressor, a condenser, an expansion apparatus, and an evaporator for cooling air being discharged from a drum by the evaporator a heat pump, and the method may include activating the compressor; measuring a property (P1) of the refrigerant that has passed through the compressor; re-measuring a property (P2) of the refrigerant that has passed through the compressor after a predetermined period of time has passed; checking whether or not a value F that is defined as P2 - P1 is equal to or greater than a predetermined value; suspending the operation of the compressor and repeating the foregoing processes when the value F is less than the predetermined value; and determining that a failure has occurred in the clothes treating apparatus when the execution number of the processes is equal to or greater than the predetermined value.

IPC 8 full level

D06F 33/02 (2006.01); D06F 39/10 (2006.01); D06F 58/20 (2006.01); D06F 58/28 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP KR US)

D06F 58/50 (2020.02 - EP KR US); F26B 23/001 (2013.01 - US); D06F 34/28 (2020.02 - EP KR US); D06F 58/206 (2013.01 - EP KR US); D06F 2103/38 (2020.02 - EP KR US); D06F 2103/42 (2020.02 - EP KR US); D06F 2103/50 (2020.02 - EP KR US); D06F 2105/26 (2020.02 - EP KR US); D06F 2105/58 (2020.02 - EP KR US); D06F 2105/60 (2020.02 - EP US); F26B 23/00 (2013.01 - US)

Citation (search report)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AL AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO RS SE SI SK SM TR

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 2012134158 A2 20121004; WO 2012134158 A3 20130103; CN 103459702 A 20131218; CN 103459702 B 20160615; EP 2691566 A2 20140205; EP 2691566 A4 20150401; EP 2691566 B1 20171025; KR 20120110500 A 20121010; US 2014013614 A1 20140116; US 9134068 B2 20150915

DOCDB simple family (application)

KR 2012002264 W 20120328; CN 201280016356 A 20120328; EP 12764584 A 20120328; KR 20110028392 A 20110329; US 201214007126 A 20120328